# salve
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: sălv, säv, IPA: /sɑːv/, /sælv/
* (US) enPR: sălv, săv, IPA: /sæ(l)v/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːv, -ælv, -æv

### Etymology 1

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).

#### Noun

salve (countable and uncountable, plural salves)
* An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
* Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

##### Derived terms

* black salve
* lip salve
* salve bug

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).

#### Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
* (transitive) To calm or assuage.
** 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
* To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
* To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
** 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
* (dated) To salvage.
** 1942 March, “Notes and News: Repairing Blitzed Underground Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.

##### Derived terms

* salvability
* salvable
* salvage
* salvee
* salver
* salvor
* weapon-salve

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Latin salvō (“to save”).

#### Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
* (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
* (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
** 1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
* (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

#### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “salve”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Etymology 4

From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.

#### Interjection

salve
* Hail; a greeting.

#### Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
* (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

### Anagrams

* avels, evals, selva, Laves, Elvas, Veals, 'alves, slave, Slavé, Alves, Selva, Levas, laves, vales, veals, valse, Slave

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salvə/, [ˈsalvə]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German salve, from Old Saxon salva, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu.

#### Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)
* ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From French salve, from Latin salvē (“hail!, welcome!, farewell!”).

#### Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)
* salvo
* volley
* burst
* tirade

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

From Middle Low German salven, from Old Saxon salbon, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn (“to anoint”).

#### Verb

salve (imperative salv, infinitive at salve, present tense salver, past tense salvede, perfect tense er/har salvet)
* anoint

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salv/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

salve f (plural salves)
* salvo, volley of shots
* round
    une salve d’applaudissementsA round of applause

### See also

* salvage
* salvation

### Further reading

* “salve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* laves, lavés, levas, Slave, slave, valse, valsé

## Galician
### Verb

salve
* inflection of salvar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsal.ve/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alve
* Hyphenation: sàl‧ve

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin salvē.

#### Interjection

salve
* (formal) hello!; hi!; hail!
    Synonym: ciao (colloquial)
* greetings

##### Further reading

* salve$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

salve
* feminine plural of salvo

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

salve f
* plural of salva

### References

* ↑ Salve Regina in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Selva, selva, slave, svela, valse

## Latin
### Etymology

Imperative of the verb salveō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsal.u̯eː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsal.ve/, [ˈsälve]

### Interjection

salvē
* hail!, hello!, welcome!
* farewell!

#### Usage notes

* This is the singular form. When greeting a group, salvēte is used.

#### Related terms

* salūtō
* salvēte (plural form)
* salvus

#### Descendants

* Italian: salve
* Portuguese: salve
* Romanian: salve
* Spanish: salve

### References

* “salve”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “salve”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* salve in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “salve”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From the oblique forms of Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō.

#### Alternative forms

* salf, salfe, salff, salffe, salwe, selve
* scealfe, sealfe, sealve (Early Middle English)
* sallfe (Ormulum)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsalv(ə)/, /salf/

#### Noun

salve (plural salves)
* A salve; a curative ointment.
* A remedy, cure, or deliverance.
* Any ointment or balm.

##### Related terms

* salven

##### Descendants

* English: salve
* Scots: saw

##### References

* “salve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

salve
* Alternative form of sauf

#### Preposition

salve
* Alternative form of sauf

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

salve
* Alternative form of self

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

salve
* Alternative form of salven

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

salve
* Alternative form of saven

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German salve (sense 1), and Latin salve (sense 2).

### Noun

salve f or m (definite singular salva or salven, indefinite plural salver, definite plural salvene)
* ointment, salve
* salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

### References

* “salve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German salve.

#### Noun

salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)
* ointment, salve

#### Verb

salve (present tense salvar, past tense salva, past participle salva, passive infinitive salvast, present participle salvande, imperative salve/salv)
* (transitive) to anoint

### Etymology 2

From Latin salve.

#### Noun

salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)
* salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

### References

* “salve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Salve, evlas, levas, salve, savle, svale, svela, valse, vasle, vesal, vesla

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsaw.vi/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsaw.vi/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsaw.ve/ [ˈsaʊ̯.ve]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsal.vɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.vɨ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsal.vɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.vɨ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsal.bɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.βɨ]
* Rhymes: -alvɨ, -awvi
* Hyphenation: sal‧ve

### Etymology 1

From Latin salvē (“hail”).

#### Interjection

salve!
* (poetic) hail!
    Synonym: saudações
* (colloquial) greetings, hi
    Synonyms: saudações, olá, fala aí

#### Noun

salve m (plural salves)
* (colloquial) shout out
** 2020 September 5, SECOM, “Um salve à luta das mulheres indígenas no mundo todo”, in CONAFER‎, Brasília, DF, archived from the original on 2023-09-03:Por isso, um salve a todas as guerreiras, sábias, anciãs, jovens, caciques, pajés, mulheres indígenas que resistem e defendem o bem-estar do seu povo.So, a shout out to all warrior, wise, old, young, chief, shaman, indigenous women that resist and defend their people's well-being.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

salve
* inflection of salvar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin salvē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsal.ve/

### Interjection

salve
* welcome!, greetings!, cheerio!
* so long!, bye-bye!

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsalbe/ [ˈsal.β̞e]
* Rhymes: -albe
* Syllabification: sal‧ve

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin salvē (“hail, hello”).

#### Interjection

salve
* (archaic) hello
* (poetic) hail

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

salve
* inflection of salvar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “salve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10